Ask a “Masker”?

The God shaped hole WILL be filled. It’s quite simple.

Now $©ience fills that hole.

People are, in general, quite stupid. The priests and Shamans of yore have been replaced with white coats and stethoscopes.

Oh boy, I had a really bizarre encounter at a Starbucks a few hours ago in big blue city central. I walk in and notice right away that 3 of the 5 baristas are wearing masks. I walk up to who I think is the manager, who is also wearing a mask, and ask him why most workers are masking. He, smaller Asian American mid 20s with a gay vibe, says that one of the workers had an outbreak (whatever that means), so out of safety they are masking.

I ask him: do you think that mask is protecting you, and the rest of us non-masking people are at great risk? Then he says: you come here often don’t you? ‘Yeah’ I said. He goes: I feel like we have this conversation every time. You harass any employee here who is in a mask. I said: I am trying to understand why you are wearing a mask when there is no evidence it helps…and does a lot of harm. It’s been 4 years, haven’t you done your own research by now?

Then he starts gaslighting me: I just like wearing a mask. Me: what do you like about it, are you ashamed about something, or you don’t want to be seen? Then he asks why I care so much about the mask. I explain the psychological and physical harms, the likelihood of another round of mandates and lockdowns and how it’s meant to control the public. Then more gaslighting: I don’t care about any of that. I tell him: It could eventually lead to permanent lockdowns and internment camps like they had in Australia and other countries. He says: I would be happy. Me: you don’t care about anything? No, he says. Me: If people are being forced out of their own home and forcibly injected or even killed? Him: no. Me: How about if someone paid you to kill a person? He said he would do it. Then I said: so if an employee is sexually abusing another employee, you wouldn’t care? He hesitated little then said No I wouldn’t. Me: An employee steals from the store? A more uncomfortable No from him. How do you think corporate would respond hearing you say all this? Then he changes his tune. Hey, I just work here. Me: no, no, don’t try to weasel out of it now. Then, he goes: I could write a complaint and have you banned from the store.

I ask him what is his purpose in life as he doesn’t care about anything? He doesn’t know. I ask: why are you here in the world? Then, a maskless White, early 20s female barista jumps in to defend him: you got your drinks, you can leave. Some back and forth with her. The whole time I am not visibly angry.

Now comes the weirdest part. A late 30s, early 40ish white male medium build, looks rough – like history of drug abuse and might be on drugs, with slow slurred tone – says: why you picking on these kids? He continues: look at how big you are and how small they are, why don’t you pick on someone your own size? I said: we were just having a conversation, I am not picking on them, I would ask you the same if you were wearing a mask. Then he says: I know this person from Kansas City, some other guy who is buffed around here, I have transvestite friends, why does it matter? He fist bumps the masked gay Asian worker. I said: why are you defending mask wearing? He repeated his friends from wherever and then I left. As I am walking out, he is trying to stare me down. I kept my eye on him and left. Surreal.

The Jews in America need to show some compassion for Palestinians, displaced as they are, and provide housing in each humble home of a Jewish family.

I’d say about 10 Palestinians per Jewish household.

Love your neighbor as thine own self.

Have to make room for those teeming masses in Gaza. Think of the children, even the dead ones. 25,000 dead Palestinians, 1,000,000 dollars in reparations, 25 billion dollars debt due on demand.

The Jews can provide some assistance, need to have a heart.

Might as well share lox and bagels, some pastrami too!

I saw the best example of the mask stupidity in a fast food drive through two years ago. A guy was wearing a mask while alone in his car, which was a convertible. And he had the top down. Bless his heart…

Eric, excellent question. I ask maskers all the time “why are you wearing a mask?” and, no matter what response they give me, I always push back to the point where they usually walk away or refuse to speak with me. Occasionally, someone will agree and take off their mask. When I am making headway in the conversation, I always tell them to take it off.

I take a gentler approach to younger Gen Z types. I agree with you, I think the young maskers feel a sense of purpose wearing them or they are making a political statement.

Last week, I asked a Gen Z barrista at Starbucks why she was wearing a mask, and she was taken aback by the question. When I pressed her, she said for health reasons. When I told her there was no scientific or clinical evidence that masks worked and pointed out that the size of virus particles (assuming they exist) are orders of magnitude smaller than the holes in her mask, she turned away from me and her manager jumped in. When I told them, assuming even the masks work – and they don’t – that she can get just as easily infected through the eyes, ears, and skin if any cuts or abrasions, another customer jumped in and told me to stop harassing the worker because it’s her choice. Then I told the customer: oh, so 2-3 years ago, when it was required to wear a mask, and I couldn’t get served without a mask, and they called the cops on me, did I have a choice to not wear a mask? She (customer) said: well, I didn’t agree with that. Then the two of us talked for 10 minutes.

The customer admitted that she had not ever looked into the data or done any independent research into the science. She just followed the mainstream narrative.

Mass Hysteria is why, although none of them will admit it. The response you will get is something along the lines of ‘following the science’; as if it was a religion they had adopted, out of fear, no less.

Computer graphics and technical illustrations are a big part of the problem. It wasn’t until the mid 1990s that IBM researchers managed to capture an image of a virus using their new-fangled scanning electron microscope. Up until then any “pictures” of a virus were as real as Steamboat Willy dancing around the silver screen. But the colorful spiky beachballs that were used throughout the pandemic to add a graphical element to news stories are deeply ingrained in the fearful. A real face to the enemy.

Problem goes back to that issue of size. The illustration over the shoulder of the news model is as big as her head. But in real life photons aren’t small enough to adequately reflect off the surface of a virus. Even the comparison I’ve heard of blocking flies with a chain-link fence isn’t anywhere near the scale.

like many modern scientific principles, grasping the concept and thinking you grasp the concept are two very different things. For the layman, conjuring up Schrödinger’s cat is a good enough explanation if he just accepts it and moves on. But pretending that understanding the thought experiment is the equivalent of being a particle physicist is ridiculous. Problem is many people convince themselves that they do understand without knowing even basic calculus or any advanced mathematics.

I used to try and understand how spread spectrum radio signals worked, and I’d get books out of the library and read technical docs online. Inventively I’d run into a bunch of equations with symbols I didn’t recognize or understand. Then I’d get the “Calculus for Dummies” books and try to learn enough to at least read the equation, and run into another brick wall. I finally just figured I can understand the concept but I’ll probably never be at the levels necessary to build a modulator. It’s enough to trust the engineers that built the thing.

I tell this story because I’m sure that the overwhelming majority of the world’s population operates on this level of understanding. And for 99.999% of us, that’s good enough. But when one of those 99.999% sets policy, and ignores the 0.0001% who actually know, that’s when problems start.

Why the difference between the 20-somethings of yore and the ones today? The ones today have known nothing but a world in which they’re strapped into “safety seats” every time they get into a car (As opposed to sitting on grandma’s lap as mom drives while smoking a cigarette).

They’ve grown up wearing a freaking helmet to ride a bike!

There are “safe spaces” at school in case you’re a fairy or think that you’re a girl with a dick, so your feelings won’t get hurt when someone uses the wrong pronoun.

And the schools are closed if strong winds are predicted (Seriously, it’s now a thing where I live).

Someone leaves their briefcase on the bus and the bomb squad is called.

A mask wearer is an insecure person. I don’t believe there is any magical theorem or reason to what they do. Personally, I don’t think they even know why they do it. But, it does border down to insecurity. Insecure in their looks, insecure to stand up to dominance or control, or not having the mental capability to reflect why they are subjecting themselves to a falsified narrative.

An intelligent person would want to learn, understand, and then decide if what they are doing makes a difference. What are the benefits of me doing this? What are the repercussions? How will this affect my health? What has history taught us? What has science taught us? Is there something more beneficial that I could do to take care of my body?

I don’t want to waste my time hearing their reasoning. I don’t care. My time could better be spent having a thought provoking conversation with someone with sound judgement and insight rather than listening to the rantings and feelings of someone who doesn’t know how to open a science book.

I live in the middle of lefty loonie land, surrounded by houses with rainbow “Hate Has No Home Here” signs, black BLM fist signs, etc.

There’s a public school across the street, and people walk their kids by my house all the time, so I often hear the conversations. Last week, a dad was walking two young kids, perhaps in second and third grade, to school, and everyone was masked up. The kids asked him, why is it that they have to wear masks when nobody else does. His answer was that even when everyone is being irresponsible, they shouldn’t be irresponsible just to fit in. The message is sound, but the context is crazy.

I taught my son the opposite. He was a first grader when covid hit and school shut down for a year. When he went back, masks were optional, but highly encouraged. The teachers kept nagging him about wearing one, but this little second grader was asking them if they’re mandatory, and then declining to wear one because it doesn’t make sense. I’m proud of the little dude! He also told me that the few masked children whose parents force them to wear them, remove the masks the moment the parents leave.

My rant about the covid vaxecution shot isn’t so much that they harm a persons immune system causing cancers and other diseases or deaths. The fact that it likely sterilizes. I have read in several of the pamphlets by the depop groups how it’ll only take killing off 2 to 3 generations to get the population back to a manageable billion or so. Of course all the ‘fact checkers’ deny it saying the shot is safe and effective but the late Dr. Arne Burkhardt (German) found that the Spike Proteins actually replaces sperm in males. He said:
“If I were a woman in fertile age, I would not plan a motherhood from a person, from a man who has been vaccinated.”

Of course other studies have shown the spike protein also destroys ovaries in females.

Don’t look for rogue governments or medical systems to warn about this.

https://newsaddicts.com/top-expert-spike-protein-replaces-sperm-vaxxed-men/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

I think a lot of the foolishness and craziness surrounding the Covfefe Virus proliferated because we, as a society, are less religious, particularly in the Judeo-Christian sense.

First, it’s because contrary to what one might think, when you stop believing in God, it doesn’t mean you believe in nothing—it means you believe in anything and everything. In other words, you end up worshipping what the 1st Commandment calls “strange gods.” Among those strange gods are “the environment” and “safety.”

Second, worshipping the strange gods of the environment and safety means you’re reverting to paganism. By this I mean not necessarily worshipping tree gods, but that you believe that nature is angry at you and you must propitiate nature with sacrifices, like wearing masks and driving EVs, lest nature get really angry and kill you, even if those sacrifices are detrimental to your property, liberty, and life.

Third, if you believe that this life is all there is and that when you’re dead, you’re dead and that’s it, you believe that you have to hang on to this life as much as you can, regardless of the quality of your life or the quality of others’ lives.

Finally, you believe that the here and now is all that matters. You denigrate the past and its tradition and wisdom as being benighted and intolerant. You believe that the future will only get worse, and who cares—you won’t be around anyway.

If we hadn’t jettisoned Judeo-Christian traditions and values, would we have even let half of this stuff happen?

There are people who STILL think that face diapers are some magic amulet against respiratory viruses like the dreaded ‘Rona, and that wearing one shows you “Care about others”. Ironically though, there was a story out of the UK last year showing that people who dutifully followed face diaper mandates “Out of care for others” had worse mental health outcomes than those who refused to comply with such nonsensical diktats. Is it possible that people who STILL wear face diapers have been mentally damaged in some way, given the MASSIVE propaganda that establishment media has been pumping about COVID, face diapers, and “vaccines”?

Eric, I’m curious – why do your articles refer to the mRNA concoctions sold as vaccines as “drugs” or “palliatives”? Calling them drugs almost implies they offer some desirable effect (unless you are taking the strict textbook definition as a metabolism-altering substance). I’d say they are none of the above. These are drugs in the way that Draino is a drug. Just think we should be using language that underscores that these should not be taken under any circumstances. They are: Failed experimental compositions. They are developmental synthetic genetic material. They are untested biologics. Above all, they are toxic, harmful or fatal upon exposure, and may cause heritable genetic damage.

‘In particular, “mainstream” news, bracketed within air fingers quotes.’ — eric

Here is a typical ration of ‘mainstream’ opinion from the Lügenpresse:

‘The Los Angeles Times’ editorial board endorsed Rep. Adam Schiff in the competitive race to replace the late California Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

‘The Times praised all three Democrats in the race, describing Schiff, Rep. Barbara Lee and Rep. Katie Porter as “smart, experienced, savvy members of the House who could represent California well in the Senate.”

‘But Schiff, the Times said, “stands out for his extraordinary leadership over the last several years in helping to protect the nation’s institutions, the rule of law and American democracy itself from former President Trump.”’

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/14/l-a-times-endorses-schiff-california-senate-00135526

Never mind that Schiff was formally censured by the House last year for having “abused this trust by saying there was evidence of collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia.”

Both Schiff and the Lügenpresse keep repeating their absurd ‘Russia Russia Russia’ slur, even after the Mueller investigation found nothing, repetition being the sine qua non of effective propaganda.

An interesting proposition. I might try it one day but all I expect is one of the sundry appeals to authority or experts or altruism or “whatever their reason.” Had all of the coofy doof stuff remained in the realm of recommendation and not mandate, which made it political, the libertarian in me wouldn’t care one whit what some idiot wore on their face or shot in their arm. Even though the mandates are over, the odor of those days sticks with me and I have nothing but derision for people who do those things as I still see them in a default way as wearing the “armband” of a regime and its narrative to which I am politically opposed.

After reading about a month or so ago that CO2 emitted by humans every time we EXHALE is now looked at by “Scientists” as “Contributing to climate change”, I’m curious how many people who are STILL wearing face diapers do so thinking that they’re “Stopping the spread of CO2”. Those who subscribed to the cult of COVID/ FAUCIISM are likely also members of the Climate Change Cult.

I learned that getting into an argument with a stupid person is like getting into a pissing contest with a skunk. You will never win!

This is interesting. Sometime during the Clinton Administration, the debate on national healthcare was taking place after a number of failed attempts by Kennedy and Nixon to impose it on the American public. At the time of Clinton, nearly 30 years ago an increasing number of younger people were becoming increasingly concerned about being “covered” in the event of a low probability tragedy. I couldn’t understand that, much less this masking phenomenon. Why would anyone want to increase their own taxes by over 20 percent to “cover” an illness that might not ever occur, especially if you try just a little to stay healthy. That extra money the government would be taking from you would buy you enough supplements or homeopathic care for years.

Obama comes around, people are fatter and less healthy and he basically extracted a bunch of money to enshrine a sick model disease care system seemingly forever. I count my lucky stars that I retained enough employment to stay out of Obamacare mandates.

I have 5 more years to become eligible for medicare and for that not to matter. Thank God.

In the meantime, I believe that you have to come armed with facts with these retards. I have never seen such a strident, insufferable brainwashed lot as these younger people. Time out parenting obviously didn’t work. If I had a kid, if it stepped out of line, I’d tear its ass.

It is a waste of time to ask a stupid person why they are stupid.

I’d ask them but most likely wouldn’t understand their muffled response. Then they’d lift the mask and I don’t really need an answer then. I figure they like the smell of their exhaust and hate oxygen.